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MICROSOFT CORP. $51 (Nasdaq symbol MSFT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 7.9 billion; Market cap: $402.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.6; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.microsoft.com) is the world’s largest software company. Its Windows operating system powers about 90% of the world’s personal computers. Microsoft’s other main product— its Office suite, which includes a word processor (Word) and spreadsheet program (Excel)— controls 90% of its market. The company also makes computer-hardware products, including its Xbox video game console and Surface tablet computer. High U.S. dollar dampens results ...
NVIDIA CORP. $37 (Nasdaq symbol NVDA; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 544.6 million; Market cap: $20.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.9; Dividend yield: 1.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.nvidia .com) is a leading designer of 3D-capable video chips, which help video games run more smoothly and appear more lifelike. In the fiscal year ended January 31, 2016, Nvidia’s revenue rose 7.0%, to a record $5.0 billion from $4.7 billion a year earlier. Sales of its graphic video chips (84% of the total revenue) gained 9.1%. That’s because Nvidia is doing a good job developing chips for virtual reality devices, self-driving cars and data centres. However, sales of its Tegra chips for mobile devices (11%) fell 3.5%. Licensing revenues (5%) were flat. Nvidia earned $929 million in fiscal 2016. That’s up 16.0% from $801 million a year earlier. Per-share profits rose 17.6%, to $1.67 from $1.42, on fewer shares outstanding....
NEWMONT MINING CORP. $32 (www.newmont.com) earned $0.34 a share in the first quarter of 2016, down 26.1% from $0.46 a year earlier. Higher gold and copper production pushed up its operating costs and offset a 3.0% rise in revenue, to $2.03 billion from $1.97 billion....
MICROSOFT CORP. $51 (Nasdaq symbol MSFT; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 7.9 billion; Market cap: $402.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.6; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.microsoft.com) is the world’s largest software company. Its Windows operating system powers about 90% of the world’s personal computers. Microsoft’s other main product— its Office suite, which includes a word processor (Word) and spreadsheet program (Excel)— controls 90% of its market. The company also makes computer-hardware products, including its Xbox video game console and Surface tablet computer. High U.S. dollar dampens results ...